When Did E-Devlet Come into Effect?
What is e-Devlet?
Known to the public as e-Devlet, its full name is the Digital Turkey Platform, with the URL address turkiye.gov.tr. This digital network server, where citizens can access the services of all public institutions and organizations with a single click, came into effect on April 20, 2006, under the leadership of the then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Although it started with 22 pilot applications, the date it became fully operational corresponds to December 2008. Every form of demand arises as a classic economic general knowledge. Bureaucratic transactions in daily life, such as criminal record, military deferment procedures, education certificates, traffic tickets, caused people to either take continuous leave from their workplaces or waste time waiting in long and tiring queues. Thanks to the developing technological opportunities every day, the e-Devlet system can be defined as a digital network platform that offers this chain of difficult bureaucratic transactions to citizens electronically, seamlessly and securely, with a single click. Türksat institution is authorized to upload all network and databases of various institutions and organizations to the system under the coordination of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, and a total of 5066 services from 660 institutions have been made available to users. In addition, since existing public institutions and organizations also perform most of their transactions electronically, all information is still being integrated into the system in real-time. As of July 2020, the e-Devlet platform has more than 48 million members. For new registrants, to register for the system, one can first go to PTT branches to get a password, and then register for the system by going to turkiye.gov.tr via computer or smart phones.
Service Opportunities in the e-Devlet System
In the existing system where the database containing the personal information of 660 institutions regarding services is registered, citizens can access many services that they may need in their daily lives, whether they are civil servants, workers, or employers; such as inquiry of education certificate, retirement transactions, High-Speed Pass System (HGS) balance transactions are provided in an electronic environment with internet access only, without waiting in line. - Service Document - SGK Transactions - Criminal Record Inquiry - Address Information - Traffic Ticket Inquiry - Land Registry Transactions - Education Certificate - Population Information - Information about the status of past or ongoing lawsuits, work and transactions are made easily accessible without the tiring and time-consuming queues in front of institutions, thanks to this platform. The slogan, 'Now the state will come to the citizen, not the citizen to the state', opened this system to the use of citizens, and it would be correct to define this system in terms of its functioning in this way.
e-Devlet System Technical Details
For general cultural information about the technical infrastructure of the system, the domain name turkiye.gov.tr was created by the Prime Ministry Information Processing Department. The administrator of the system is Türksat institution. The financial responsibility of the system is carried out by the Digital Transformation Office, representing the Presidency. The name servers where the domain name is located are ns1.turkiye.gov.tr (IP: 94.55.117.7) and ns2.turkiye.gov.tr (IP: 94.55.118.8).
